Homelessness linked to poor antipsychotic medication adherence

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of adherence to antipsychotic prescription medication in a well-defined homeless cohort over a 15-year period. We hypothesized that adherence would be well below the recommended threshold for clinical effectiveness (80 %), and that it would be strongly associated with modifiable risk factors in the social environment in which homeless people live.

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That’s sad :worried:

I was almost in the inverse statistic, if it weren’t for my family persistence in not giving up on me when I was not adhering to antipsychotics I would most certainly be homeless at this point.

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Take ur meds ppl